THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Le Club: Tel Aviv's
Answer to Western Chic
TEL AVIV — With Is-
raelis forever trying to emu-
late European and Ameri-
can styles, it is no surprise
that Tel Aviv's "Le Club"
has become the most popu-
lar gathering place for Is-
rael's small but growing
crowd of "beautiful people,"
Since its debut three
years ago, Le Club has be-
come the most exclusive re-
treat in Israel, with 1,000
members and an equal
ember on the waiting list.
- The people who gather at
Le Club include politicians,
diamond merchants, con-
struction financiers, models
and actresses. Prime Minis-
ter Menahem Begin has
even turned up on occasion.
Once past the front
door, (which is opened by
inserting one's member-
ship card into a slot)
members may stop in the
game room to play shesh
besh, the Arab version of
backgammon or con-
tinue upstairs to dine in
the club's French restau-
rant.
On the third floor is a
disco which favors Ameri-
can music by such stars as
Donna Summer and
Michael Jackson.
Israel's answer to West-
ern chic is the brainchild of
former El Al attendant Rafi
Shauli. Shauli, who has
been running various dis-
cotheques throughout Is-
rael since 1967, seems to
have a knack for
"Americanizing" this part
of the world.
Shauli has been credited
with, among other things,
introducing Israel to
Chinese food and frozen
yogurt. And although the
local press has accused him
of having connections with
the Israeli underworld,
Shauli and Le Club have be-
come the undisputed cham-
pions of Tel Aviv night life.
Holocaust Library Planning
to Expand Publishing Work
NEW YORK — The
Holocaust Library, which
since its founding two years
ago has published 11 books
documenting the Nazi
slaughter of six million
Jews, has announced plans
to expand its publication
program following the
granting of non-profit
status that will make it elig-
ible to receive tax-
deductible contributions
toward its work.
Dedicated to preserving
the facts of the Holocaust
through authentic accounts
by witnesses and scholars,
the library was founded in
1978 by three survivors —
Alexander Donat, advisory
board chairman who wrote
"The Holocaust Kingdom;"
Leon W. Wells, a physicist
and inventor who wrote of
his concentration camps ex-
periences and escapes in
"The Death Brigade;" and
Elie Wiesel, author of
"Night," The Jews of Si-
lence" and other works and
who is chairman of the
President's Commission on
the Holocaust.
Eight additional titles
will be published this year
by the Holocaust Library.
Then include an updated
and expanded edition of
"The Politics of Rescue: The
Roosevelt Administration
and the Holocaust, 1938-
Feingold;
1945" by , Henry
"Crystal Night" by Rita
Thalmann and Emmanuel
Feinerman, an account of
the Nazi night of terror in
November 1938 that served
as a prelude to the
Holocaust; and "Sobibor" by
Miriam Novitch, the story
of three survivors of the
Sobibor death factory.
In addition, a number,
of special projects are
being developed — a con-
cise encyclopedia of the
Holocaust, a pictorial
history and three
Holocaust 'primers" for
elementary, high school
and college students.
Books may be purchased
in bookstores or by writing
the Holocaust Library, 216
West. 18th St., New York
10011.
Papers Debate Noshrim Issue
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — The
continuing debate over aid
to Soviet immigrants who
/IV to go to countries other
Wan Israel has been taken
up in the Israeli newspap-
ers.
Davar, in an editorial,
ns against a hasty reac-
on the part of Israel.
There is need to act with re-
gard to the drop-outs, but
without hysteria. Such
steps would harm Israel's
image in the eyes of those
Jews who are eager to leave
the Soviet Union and would
also put in danger Jewish
solidarity.
Zvi Gitelman, a Univer-
sity of Michigan political
scientist, writing in the
Jerusalem Post, takes to
task those who blame HIAS
.for the drop-outs phenom-
enon.
He points out that the
k
basic issue is not HIAS,
"but why so many Soviet
Jewish emigrants, who
until 1974 came almost
exclusively to Israel, are
no longer doing so." He
concludes that there is no
reason for anyone to set-
tle in Israel other than
someone with a strong
Jewish and Zionist com-
mitment.
"Most Jews who left the
USSR today have neither.,
The committed Jews having
left as soon as the gates
were opened." To force un-
committed Jews to go to Is-
rael is short-sighted, im-
moral, impractical and
self-defeating, he wrote.
The real test in golf and in
life is not in keeping out of
the rough, but in getting out
after we are in.
Rev. John H. Moore
Friday, May 16, 1980 13
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